Merzouga Desert Tour

Experience the charm and magic of the desert!

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Starts from
172,00
  • Number of nights
    2
  • Departure
    time
    07:300
  • Return
    time
    19:00
  • Return
    time
    Hotel
  • Maximum number
    20
Description

Known for the kingdom's highest dunes, over 150 meters high. Merzouga is 570 km from Marrakech, a route filled with beautiful scenery combining snow-capped High Atlas mountains, rivers, oases, gorges and sand dunes.

Program

Day 1 - 330 km

The road to Merzouga passes through Boumalne Dades, the first stage of this tour to the great dunes. After a 2-hour drive through the High Atlas Mountains, a stop is made at the Tizi N'Tichka pass, one of the highest peaks in the Atlas Mountains at 2,260 m, before continuing on to Kasbah Ait Ben-Haddou, declared an international heritage site by UNESCO, for a guided tour of its narrow streets.

Lunch in the village of Ait Ben-Haddou, then back on the bus to head for the Skoura palm grove, where you'll pay a visit to the famous Kasbah Amerhidil and take a stroll through its beautiful Oasis, accompanied by a villager who will take you between its palm trees and introduce you to the life of the Berbers in this Atlas region. He'll tell you about their way of life, their customs and the nature of the work they do in the palm grove, with a demonstration.

Transfer to Boumalne Dades, where you'll spend your first night in a guesthouse (dinner and breakfast included).

Day 2 - 270 km

This morning, after breakfast, you'll head for the Merzouga desert via the route des milles Kasbah. En route, you'll make several stops, including one to contemplate the Todra Gorge and another in the town of Erfoud, which is the last stop before reaching the desert. 
In Erfoud, you'll have free time for lunch and then explore a fossil workshop to witness the various stages of fossil extraction.

Once you've reached Merzouga, and after a few kilometers on the track, you'll reach the inn where you'll begin a 30-minute camel ride and spend the night in the tented bivouac.

In the evening, after watching the sunset and after dinner, the Tuaregs of the bivouac put on a little tamtam show around a campfire.

Day 3 - 590 km 

After sunrise and breakfast, you take the bus back to Marrakech, stopping off in the town of Ouarzazate for a visit to the Ouarzazate film studios or the Taourirt kasbah, after free time for lunch.

NB: In Ouarzazate, you can only visit one of the 3 proposed tours!

This tour is offered with drivers who speak different languages (French, Spanish or English). You can choose your preferred language when you confirm your booking. To enhance the content of this tour, a guide is strongly recommended, to give you more explanations and information, and to take you to the various sites you'll be visiting, except for the film studio, where visits are made with a studio guide, for a tip.

Included

All the services included in this product are mentioned below:

  • Air-conditioned and comfortable tourist bus throughout the circuit
  • Professional and responsible driver
  • Pick up from your hotel or from Jamaa el Fna Square or the nearest place to your riad
  • Guided tour of Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou (local guide)
  • Walk in an oasis between palm trees with a villager
  • Night in a riad in Boumalne Dades
  • Visit the Todra Gorges
  • Visit a fossil workshop
  • Dromedary ride in Merzouga
  • Overnight in a nomadic bivouac with shared sanitary facilities
  • Dinner and breakfast at riad and at the bivouac
  • In case of choosing a rental car, fuel will not be included
Hotels

Below are the hotels included in each destination by category, in the case of unavailability of one of the hotels mentioned in the program, MY MARRAKECH TOURS undertakes to offer you hotels similar or superior to the chosen category.

Category 3 stars:

Boumalne Dades
  • La Gazelle de Dades or La Fibule de Dades depending on the availability
Merzouga
  • Nomadic bivouac (with common sanitary)

Category 4 stars:

Boumalne Dades
  • Riad Gabsi or Dar Ahlam depending on the availability
Merzouga
  • Normal bivouac (with private sanitary)

Category 5 stars:

Boumalne Dades
  • Riad Rihana or Tizzaraouine depending on the availability
Merzouga
  • Luxury bivouac (with private sanitary)
Options

First day options

Amerhidil Kasbah

A 17th century kasbah located in the palm grove of Skoura built by a descendant of Zaouia Ennaciria. Amridil was a small Zaouia or brotherhood, its mission was purely religious, it ensured the teaching of the principles of Islam and the learning of the Koran. Its buildings still include a section reserved for students and a prayer room and on its roof, it still retains an ancient sundial whose main function was to determine the prayer times from sunrise to sunset. *Access fees do not include the guide.

Tea ceremony

During a stop in Skoura Oasis, we open the doors of an old kasbah still inhabited to discover from the inside and discover the customs of the Berber family who live there, she will make you attend a tea ceremony...

Second day options

Adrenaline in Jeep

To add an adventure touch to your circuit and better enjoy the Merzouga desert, We suggest you to change your vehicle in Erfoud by 4x4, then head to Merzouga where you make a 60-minutes circuit between its sand dunes, this circuit ends in the bivouac or the place from where you start the dromedaries ride. The next day, you will use the 4x4 from the bivouac to the village of Merzouga to take back your vehicle and continue the circuit.
Each 4x4 car has a capacity of 6 people, if you are more than 6 people please select more than one car according to your number.
Option available only if the vehicle chosen from Marrakech is not a Toyota Prado TX car.

Third day options

Taourirt kasbah

A kasbah from the 17th century, it was built on a hill at the crossroads of two rivers, Dadès and Idermi to ensure the safety and protection of the caravans that came or went to Timbuktu. Kasbah Taourirt is built respecting the architecture of the Tuaregs of the Sahara in the form of a labyrinth to ensure also the protection of the Pasha in case of an invasion, then in the 19th century, the kasbah experienced the construction of its extension by the Glaoui family who ruled southern Morocco at the time.
Access fees do not include the guide.

The cinema museum

Located in the city center of Ouarzazate, this museum was first of all a film studio created by Italian film production companies in 1981 on two hectares, it consists of different sets of cult films relating to the history of the Bible. In 2007, the studio was transformed into a cinema museum. Free for children under 7 years old.

Cinema studios

Ouarzazate cinema Studios are very famous in Morocco, during this visit you go to discover the different sets and stages used in major international productions filmed in Ouarzazate... The studio guide is not included, visitors generally leave him a tip.

Full board supplement

This option gives you the possibility to include lunch meals throughout your circuit in the places mentioned in the description. All the meals proposed consist of a minimum of 3 courses (starter + main course + dessert), the menus are excluding drinks.
For allergy sufferers, please inform us about your allergy in the dedicate field in the second step of the Cart.
Itinerary

Marrakech

330 KM 6:00

Boumalne Dadès

Boumalne Dadès

270 KM 4:20

Merzouga

Merzouga

590 KM 9:30

Marrakech

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Tags

  • # The Gorges
  • # Bivouac
  • # Circuit
  • # Palm grove
  • # Mountains
  • # Desert
  • # Dromedary
  • # Adrenaline
  • # Leisure
  • # Discovery

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